# [PATCH] Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment

1 messages from 2006-10-03 to 2006-10-03. Participants: Alan Chandler.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5804

## Alan Chandler, 2006-10-03 21:48

Subject: [PATCH] Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment
Message-ID: <11599121262709-git-send-email-alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11599121262709-git-send-email-alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk

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From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
---
 gitweb/README |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 61c7ab5..099cfae 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache l
     DocumentRoot /pub/git
     RewriteEngine on
     RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
+    SetEnv	GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
 </VirtualHost>
 
 The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browsea
 If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
 then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
 
+Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
+the named file (ie in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
+configuration for gitweb.  Perl variables defined in here will
+override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
+gitweb.cgi).  Look at the comments in that file for information on
+which variables and what they mean.
 
 
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1.4.2.1

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